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Could ‘Strange Sound From the Sky’ Signal End of Days?
The Christian Diarist ^ | May 24, 2015 | JP

Posted on 05/24/2015 8:43:10 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST

The UK’s Daily Mail published a news story last weekend speculating on the source of a “strange sound from the sky” that has been heard across the globe for nearly a decade.

Witnesses told the Mail that what they heard sounded very much like the blast of a trumpet. And that it was so loud it shook the ground beneath them.

In a sidebar, the Mail listed seven possible theories, from the unremarkable to the fantastical, that could account for the strange sound from the sky.

The first six included (in order) tectonic plates grinding, atmospheric pressure, trains shunting, construction work, aliens, a HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) weapon and aliens.

But the theory that caught this Christ follower’s attention was seventh on the list – the seven trumpets of heaven ushering in the Apocalypse, as foreseen by John of Patmos, author of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

To non-believers, that might be a laughable proposition. But not to Christians.

Indeed, on the cusp of the new millennium, Newsweek published a cover story – “Prophecy: What the Bible Says About the End of the World” – that included a poll in which 71 percent of Evangelical Protestants (as well as 28 percent of non-Evangelical Protestants and 18 percent of Catholics) said they believed the world will end, as written in Revelation, in a battle at Armageddon between Christ and the Antichrist.

Well, this Christ follower counts himself among the 71 percent of evangelicals who believes the end-times prophecy of John of Patmos. But unlike many today who believe the end of days is imminent, I am unconvinced.

Because Christ, Himself, declared that “of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”

Yet, that has not deterred false prophecies of the end of days.

That includes the so-called “Great Disappointment,” which occurred in 1844 when Christ did not return to Earth as predicted by the Baptist pastor William Miller, who had urged his followers to give away all their worldly possessions.

There was also Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society (the sect known today as Jehovah’s Witnesses), who published a text in 1877 in which he predicted the rapture of the saints in 1878 and the second coming of the Lord.

Edgar Whisenant, an end-times zealot, authored the book “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988,” and somehow managed to persuade Trinity Broadcasting Network to air special programming leading up to the rapture.

Then there was Harold Camping, the Christian radio show host, who predicted in 2009 that the rapture would take place May 21, 2011, and who lamented that he was “flabbergasted” that it didn’t happen.

Because there have been over the past two millennia so many who have been misled by end times predictions that have proven false, most Christ followers today think there next to zero chance that the rapture, the Apocalypse, the return of Christ will happen in their lifetimes.

And they almost certainly are right.

Yet, there remains that next to zero chance that ours is the generation that shall see the sign of the Lord’s coming, and of the end of the world.

And when that great and terrible day comes, when all the tribes of the earth mourn, when they see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, he will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet.

A trumpet that might very well sound like that strange sound from the sky that has been heard around the globe.


TOPICS: Current Events; Evangelical Christian; General Discusssion; Theology
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; endtimes; fud; futuristcrap; musicofthespheres; ntsa; revelation; scaretactics; trumpet
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I'm not prepared to say that the strange sounds that have been heard, that actually have been recorded by witnesses like Kimberly Wookey from British Columbia, Canada, are trumpet blasts by angels, but I don't entirely rule out the possibility.
1 posted on 05/24/2015 8:43:10 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
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To: CHRISTIAN DIARIST

The sounds aren’t real, it is an online social experiment

There are thousands of people pulling these stunts every year now.


2 posted on 05/24/2015 8:46:56 AM PDT by dila813
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To: CHRISTIAN DIARIST

I hear nothing like that described. Is it imagination, or worse, a lie?


3 posted on 05/24/2015 8:48:10 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama: All the news that's fit to control and manage.)
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In the 1800s there were sounds of a battle hear. Cannons were heard but there was no battle.
4 posted on 05/24/2015 8:50:10 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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The sounds are nothing more than politicians “Bloviating”!


5 posted on 05/24/2015 8:50:29 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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For me they sound like a Shofar. All the signs indicate were are now entering the Last Days. The world is now beginning its birth pains. I always felt since a child that Christians will go thru the Tribulation, and not the ideal that Jesus will come down and rescue us before the Tribulation.

All I can say BE PREPARE & LOOK UP


6 posted on 05/24/2015 8:52:32 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: CHRISTIAN DIARIST

Langoliers.


7 posted on 05/24/2015 8:59:06 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Patriot Babe

What if this is an indication of something going on internally with the Earth or its magnetic field?


8 posted on 05/24/2015 9:01:17 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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And what about this?

Part 7: Mysterious Loud Booms In At Least 15 States Since Jan. 1st.
https://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2274&category=Environment


9 posted on 05/24/2015 9:03:15 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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I have thought of it too, but if that was the case wouldn’t we be feeling the vibrations? Instead the sounds seems to be originating in the air (Sky).


10 posted on 05/24/2015 9:06:40 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: CHRISTIAN DIARIST

Sound from the trumpet scene from the movie Red State.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItD6dQa5ncw


11 posted on 05/24/2015 9:08:14 AM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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A trumpet? Red State photo: Red State (2011) REd2.png
12 posted on 05/24/2015 9:10:23 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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There was a post about a week or two ago, on this.

That one had a bunch of links, including to videos (MTV) of the sounds of a very popular end-of-days movie from about ten years ago.

It was to me, a perfect match. And I believe a perfect explanation to this.

Sorry I don’t remember the move, it was one with Tom Cruz.

It was a perfect match, to the sounds. And they’ve been heard...

For about ten years.


13 posted on 05/24/2015 9:10:59 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-tradebalance/c5700.html)
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High frequency energy waves from orbit or space hit the atmosphere and are stepped down as they slow, creating a lowered pitch vibration “from the sky.” Source? I dunno. The sun. Military testing. Even Star Wars itself, happening in secret. Whatever it is, it’s definitely... Something.


14 posted on 05/24/2015 9:15:36 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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#8 Bad semi-trailer brakes


15 posted on 05/24/2015 9:17:18 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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Don’t hear no Jake brakes in the sky no how.


16 posted on 05/24/2015 9:20:12 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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Lord quickly come.


17 posted on 05/24/2015 9:20:31 AM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
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now thats s sound that has some range....


18 posted on 05/24/2015 9:20:48 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Most of the noise in our rural area is from military choppers of all kinds, as we are in the flight path for their drills (JBLM) a couple times per week. Doesn't bother me, I like seeing a big ole Chinook going over but sometimes I feel like Ray Liotta's character in Goodfellas.
We can also hear artillery practice from the same base about 50 miles away as the crow flies.
19 posted on 05/24/2015 9:28:43 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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Project Xylophone.


20 posted on 05/24/2015 9:29:38 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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